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[[top margin]]For: Mr. Jacob Lawrence  From: Peg Alston[[/margin]]

THE ARTS  ART ENTERTAINMENT MUSIC THEATER

ART

A Gallery with 
All the Comforts of Home

[[image]] Peg Alston in her home gallery

[[image]] "Untitled" by Pheoris West

There is something nice and invigorating about Peg Alstone's answering the door to her apartment on the upper west side of New York City to permit one to view art in an environment that is both homey and artistic.  For people who go into art galleries and museums all the time and find that they're somehow being kept at an arm's distance from the art works they went to see, Peg Alston's Arts lets one see art close.  This kind of environment, the home art gallery, is something that some people may find much more compatible than the typical commercial art gallery situation on Madison Avenue.

A major problem for the neophyte art collector that Alston solves is visualizing the work one sees in a gallery actually at home on the wall.  Many people who visit Alston's art gallery even pick up tips about furniture coordination.

She became an art dealer through being a collector.  "I'd been collecting works for about three or four years when I realized that I really couldn't afford many of the pieces I wanted.  Then about five years ago I got the idea of selling art and using the profit I made

30     Encore American & Worldwide News, June 21, 1976